Freedom Communications Holdings Inc. announced today that it has sold The Gazette in Colorado Springs, The Orange County Register and five other dailies to a privately-held company.

The 2100 Trust LLC will gain control of the publications. The company is led by Aaron Kushner, a Massachusetts investor who had attempted to buy The Boston Globe.

The transaction was described as a merger with a subsidiary of 2100 Trust and is expected to close within a month’s time. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

All current Freedom employees at the operating locations will transition to the new ownership, said Mitchell Stern, Freedom’s chief executive officer.

“While providing the value that our shareholders have sought, this transaction also ensures Freedom’s communities that our newspapers serve will continue to receive the outstanding service that has been our hallmark,” Stern said in a statement.

Freedom traces its roots back to R.C. Hoiles’ purchase in 1935 of the Santa Ana Register. The Hoiles family grew the company to more than 100 publications and several television stations.

The Irvine, Calif.-based company filed for a bankruptcy reorganization in September 2009 and emerged in April 2010 under the control of a group of bankers and investors.

Freedom sold off its broadcasting assets that November and over time has found buyers for several of its smaller dailies and weeklies.

Other papers included in the latest deal are the Desert Dispatch in Barstow, Calif; The Porterville Record in Porterville, Calif.; the Daily Press in Victorville, Calif.; the Appeal-Democrat in Marysville, Calif.; and The Sun in Yuma, Ariz.

Kushner formed 2100 Trust LLC as part of a $200 million bid in 2011 for The New York Times Co.’s New England Media Group, which included The Boston Globe. That bid was rejected.

In January, he made an unsuccessful effort to gain a controlling interest in MaineToday Media Inc., which publishes the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram.

Kushner previously headed Marian Heath Greeting Cards Inc. of Wareham, Mass. He is reported to have the financial backing of the Taylor family, the previous owners of The Boston Globe.

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